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Introduction, Purpose of this manual, Ultrium drives in a library – HP Ultrium tape drives Q1538-90925 User Manual

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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide

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Introduction

Purpose of this manual

This manual provides basic information on configuring the drives with various operating systems.
See the top-level release notes that accompany the drive for expected functionality and features.
Ultrium drives are supported on the following platforms:

HP UNIX systems (HP-UX) (

Chapter 2

)

HP Alpha UNIX (

Chapter 3

)

IBM (AIX) (

Chapter 4

)

Linux (

Chapter 5

)

Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 (

Chapter 6

)

For platforms not mentioned here, contact HP because there may be new connectivity details

available that arrived after the release notes were published.
See

Chapter 7

for details of how to verify the installation.

Ultrium drives in a library

Although Ultrium drives may also be used in a library, instructions about installing device drivers for

automatic robotics are not included in this manual.

Backup applications

For optimum performance it is important to use a backup application that supports the drive’s

features within your system’s configuration. See the Getting Started Guide for more information

about usage models.
The following applications are suitable for use within an Enterprise environment and have been

tested with Ultrium drives. They use the operating system’s standard, built-in device drivers, as

described in this manual. For further information about optimizing performance and making full use

of the drive’s functions, contact the software manufacturer or HP.

1. Cell Manager is only available on HP-UX or Windows
2. Redhat Server only (not Caldera, SUSE, and so on)

HP-UX

AIX

Sun, Solaris

Linux

HP Omniback

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yes

yes

yes

yes

Legato Networker

yes

yes

yes

yes

Veritas NetBackup

yes

yes

yes

yes

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